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WILLIAM TAYLOR, OF BRLNGTN, IOWA.,.,A'SSIGNO'R hun' Jenn n.' eine, or' SAME reiten.'

Leners raient, No. 110,605, aateaneembe' 27, raro,

IMPROVEMENT' iN GRAIN-Recientes,

The' Schedule referred te in these Lettersiateut and making part of the same.

To au whom 'tt may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLI'AHYZATAYLOR, of Burlington, in" the county of Des `Moiues and 'State of Iowa, have invented certain Improvements in Grainshowing its arrangement in a box, with reference te.

the spoutwhich delivers thegrain into the half-bushel measure. Figure 2 represents a horizontal section of the registering apparatus.4 Y

Figure 3is a vertical transverse section thereofD Figure 4 isa plan-view. ofthewlieel, which regis@ tels the number' of half-bushels.,

. Figure 5-is a plan -view of the wheel which regisfj .ters uptoonehundred bushels byteusi' Fignre is`a plan View of the dial and the handsB v Thcrsame letters are used in .all thev gnres to in= dicate identical partsn bushelsloi grain received fremthe thrashing-mac chine, or from a bin in which it maybe stored.z

My improvement consists in the employment, in'

connection with the decimal-wheels, of spring detents which `lock them during the intervals between their movements, and `projections ou the respective wheels underlying those upon vwhich' said detente act to throw the latter out-ofgear at the propertimen-that one-or both may be moredsimultaueously with the.l

'the opposite sideof the box it will turn aprojectng leverof the former, and through suchlever operate the registering-wheels.,

The half-bushel measure is shown at B, and the grain-delivering spout at C, in ig.'1,-.

The registering mechanism is inclosed in a Acoi/ered box, D, provided with ahingedlimll, and arranged therein between two metallic plates, D2 antilla,

rilhe'nplwr plate D has a dini upon, its'face, conVQ sistingvof three concentric rings, incioscd hy circular lines, the' outer ring indicating hyhalres trom il to il`;"the midtlie one by tens, from 0' to Sie; and. the in ner one by hundreds, from (l to 960, dial is cova cred by a erystaic Thisnvention relai-es te'that-elass of apparatus ci" registers which is used for tallyingthe 4number of E represents the Wheel, which indicates 0r registers the `number oflxalf-bushels passed'by the ap paratus- It is a ratchet-wheel, firmly-secured to a vertical'. arbor, E, ,which revolves in Abearings in the plateeD2 and D, and projects above the latter-for end a hand,.E2, which reaches to the outer ring oi' the dial.

'measure is pushed by it the camlever H willturn it an entire revolution teuv bushels of grain will have' passed bythe register.

' lfhe notches in front of two f its tectu, as at e el, lig. 4, are quite deep, to permit the-pawl H3, to, on 'engaging them, to enter 'also a notchiu the middle casejmay be, and turn two, or all three wheeis twice .in successhin.-

The middle wheel Frevolves ou the' arbor El, and.

vby meansof ahand, il, attached to its huh F1.

It also has' twenty ratchet-teeth, and is provided-- with square notches j? in front ofcvcry alternate one, andthe 'notches in front of two of its teeth, as at f1 f2, tig. 5, are sufficiently deep to permitthe pawl-z H. to engage' atthose points with the teethV of the upper wheel. itis' of suficieutly less diameter than the wheel E that the operatingpawl cannot engage its teethzexcept at the points aand el,

The upper wheell G turns by a tubular hub on the hub'of the z-mddle wheel, and registersbyhundreds vof bushels, by means ofthe -hanLi'G, ihstened on its heb G1., It also has twenty ratchehitceth with vsquare notches. g in 'front o' 'every alternate one, and is of such diameter that its teeth will be engaged by the pawi H only when it entersboth the deep cutst ,or

. el, andjl orfl'at-'the same time. The cam-lever H is pivoted' upon a -boltbetween acts through a 'springbar, H1, upon'the pawi HF, which is pivoted te the ,loose end of said, bar, and kept to its work by a spring, h1.,

The shape of the earn-'and the length of the spring bar must be so determined that each time' the ineae and i represent spring partis, 'which are used respective-Xy to hold the wheels l@ and. (if in position are secured. tica stud, 5, and maybe-guided on and o ninsntr" some little distance, to receive upon its upper squared The wheel has twentyA teeth, and'each .time the.

by the pawl E the distance of one tooth, sothat ou wheehor both the middle and upper wheel, as the registers every teu' bushels passed` by the apparatus,

ears securedv on the outsideof the box D, end mayb. be further'supportcd in a guide, h, asshown.

sure is pushed by, thepawlwill be caused to'tnn'n the..

' llihc tendency of the spring har is to keep the lever The .spring paw H3 is used in the ordinary manner with the square notches in' which. they engage, They between two other studs secured to the vertical flange of the plate D, in the manner shown.

The one I acts on the middle Wheel7 and is so formed and arranged -with reference to a projecting stud, e2, en the lower wheel that each time the pawl I-I2 acts on the tooth directly in advance of the deep cnt e in said wheel, said stud will push thepawl I out of the square notch, and hold it out until the Wheel F has been part-ly revolved.

'Ihe stud then releases the pawl I, to permit it to enter the next square notellin the Wheel F.

The pa'wl I', which 'acts on the upper wheel, is

'formed and arranged to hev acted upon in a similar manner by a projecting stud, f, on the middle wheel each time the paivl IIz enters the deep cut f1 in the latter.

The loose end o1' the pawl I is in Contact with that saine tirn'e hy a lever,.K, to permit o'f turning the wheels separately, for the purpose of pointing all the hands to the ligure 0, when a new lot of grain is to be measured and tallied.

' WhatI claim as myinvention, and. desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent, is.

deents I and I', and projections e2 on, Wheel Il, and f3 on wheel Il, all constructed and arranged relatively to'one another, substantially as set forth.

In testimony-whereof I have signed my name to the foregoing specification in lche presence of two suhscriloing witnesses.

WILLIAM Z. TAYLOR.

Witnesses J. R. KING, WM. GARRETT.

The combination of the Wheels E, F, and G, spring 

